Chinese soldiers marching in front of The Potala Palace, the former summer residence of His Holiness The Dalai Lama. In 1959 he fled to exile in India after a failed uprising against the Chinese regime in the capital Lhasa.
       
     
 Hitchhiking the 182. km from Wadi Halfa to Abbri is a long and uncomfortable ride, but Abdi and Mohamed Kareem are used to it, and  enjoy the time they spend together.
       
     
 Welcome to Koidu - the diamond capital of Sierra Leone!  Diamond shops are spread all over town and impossible to miss. Like gold-rush America, Sierra Leone’s diamond-mining capital can feel just as madly exciting, and just as desolate. Known as the
       
     
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